S07.E07: The Mickey

[Snazzy Daisy]

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On Celina’s last day as a rookie, John gives her one final test.

Meanwhile, Bailey makes a new friend, and Lucy places her faith in Seth for an undercover assignment.

Air Date: Feb 18, 2025

 

[threebluestars]

So Seth will either get shot/killed or be the best undercover agent ever since lying is his full time job lol.

[zapper]

That picture of Bailey sure looks like a super villain addressing her minions.

 

Might just be me.

[Brian Cronin]

"I arranged this so that we can talk about our marriage. We can't keep putting this off. Okay, now I have to go to a meeting." What the fuck was the point of THAT by James? If he wanted them to talk, just talk THEN, why in the world would he do this big thing so that they could just schedule a talk LATER?

Edited Wednesday at 11:43 AM by Brian Cronin

[anna0852]

I did enjoy seeing one crook turn on the other at the safe house. He wanted his deal dang it!

[JamieLynn832002]

6 hours ago, Brian Cronin said:

"I arranged this so that we can talk about our marriage. We can't keep putting this off. Okay, now I have to go to a meeting." What the fuck was the point of THAT by James? If he wanted them to talk, just talk THEN, why in the world would he do this big thing so that they could just schedule a talk LATER?

Especially since the problem was that Nyla kept sneaking out before their scheduled talks. It was a pretty weird plan.

[Snazzy Daisy]

A decent episode. 

Celina is no longer a rookie, congrats! I love her roommate-moments with Lucy and her getting chucked by The Hammer. I need more scene with Celina and The Hammer. 😆

Thank god the Nolan/Bailey fight is now over. Their conversation should’ve happened last week. They can work things out off screen. I wish the show takes this opportunity to get rid of her. UGH. 

Both Bailey and James should’ve apologized to their partner but they don’t. James surprising Nyla at work just because he needs to talk, that’s not cool.

Lucy partnering with Smitty is always fun. Good chemistry.

It’s good to see Tamara again. But her storyline doesn’t make much sense. Seth, REALLY??! Their “ship” name will be horrible — Samara. 😬

[shapeshifter]

2 hours ago, anna0852 said:

I did enjoy seeing one crook turn on the other at the safe house. He wanted his deal dang it!

The Hammer would be a fun, recurring CI.

I'm just recalling that Nathan Fillion got his start in a soap opera. 

[Raja]

2 hours ago, anna0852 said:

I did enjoy seeing one crook turn on the other at the safe house. He wanted his deal dang it!

I couldn't believe they were walking around loose in the safehouse after rag dolling Nolan and Suarez.

On 2/15/2025 at 3:57 PM, threebluestars said:

So Seth will either get shot/killed or be the best undercover agent ever since lying is his full time job lol.

Like West at the beginning there is no reason for Seth to have remained this long. Maybe Jump Street can take him from here.

20 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

It’s good to see Tamara again. But her storyline doesn’t make much sense. Seth, REALLY??! Their “ship” name will be horrible

Well the post Valentine's theme was how the families deal with the cop'per. Even if the long married were only slightly longer married than John and Bailey

 

17 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

Lucy partnering with Smitty is always fun. Good chemistry.

I don't know how I feel about Smitty being useful without a FBI Agent around.

24 minutes ago, Snazzy Daisy said:

Celina is no longer a rookie, congrats!

Where does Nolan go from here, does he get one of the Boots or does a new cast member come in as they try to fit in a partner for Celina. They haven't done it on this show with the Golden Tickets but on Southland Sherman went from a Boot to meet his new partner to be thought of as a pup. But then Tamara is a puppy

[milkyaqua]

Spare me the marriage drama but, yes, good for both couples to have supposedly worked things out.  But please let's not have this come up again with John and Bailey.  And agree that James coming to Nyla's office and then abruptly leaving was dumb and pointless since he was pushing for them to talk.

Good for Celina no longer being a rookie but then who will she be partnered with?

Smitty and Lucy was fun.  And him not only having children but having been married multiple times.  No wonder he's living in a camper van park.

Ugh, so they drag Tamara back and we get to deal with more of Seth's lies and additional drama with Lucy telling Tamara that they guy's a liar and not to be trusted.  He's lucky Tamara had enough sense to get a photo of the license plate and call Lucy for help.  If he'd done what he was supposed to do initally he wouldn't have had to be saved.  I wonder if Grey will say anything.

Never under estimate a crook who wants his deal.

[Jodithgrace]

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thank you! That’s all we needed, a few lines to indicate that Seth’s illness is legit. Was that so hard, show?

I had to laugh when he asked Lucy, all hurt,”Do you think I’d lie about cancer?” Well, WE all thought so…

Well, at least now we have the reason for Bailey’s Superwoman deal. Makes her a bit less annoying in my book. 

Yeah, Nyla’s husband coming all the way into her work to tell her he didn’t have time to talk to her was ridiculous. 

Tim in that support group was, um, funny. He was really into it. What kind of group is it? I forget if they mentioned it earlier. 

[Raja]

13 minutes ago, Jodithgrace said:

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thank you! That’s all we needed, a few lines to indicate that Seth’s illness is legit. Was that so hard, show?

You answered it yourself. Because they want us to dislike Seth and wonder about his truthfulness like Lucy does. Now he might make a babyface turn like West did.

16 minutes ago, Jodithgrace said:

Tim in that support group was, um, funny. He was really into it. What kind of group is it? I forget if they mentioned it earlier.

A veteran's group. Although a FTO in LAPD's Mid Wilshire probably has seen more gunfights than soldiers in Iraq and Afghanistan

[Zaffy]

Congrats to Celina and the writers that have finally turned her to a nice addition to the cast, when at the beginning she was simply annoying. I think the writers confuse rookies' inexperience and nervousness with them being annoying idiots. Like they are doing this year with the Texas dude and the liar. 

I will also give credit to the writers for making Smitty the comic relief/mascot of the show instead of the idiotic slightly villain he was at the beginning.

And here stop the good words for the writers.
So mighty-Saint Nolan  has no problem that his wife conspired with a hitman with the result of TWO people being killed. But...she was scared... yeah.. how much of a valid legal argument this would be on a court? 
I do not feel any kind of sympathy for Bailey and her hypocrite husband.
On a serious note, it is very difficult for a woman to protect herself from abusers and stalkers, but I am not sure this show delivers the right message here.

Seth, Seth, Seth, you are so expendable.. please take the Texas dude with you. 

[Madding crowd]

I’m warming up to Texas guy; he comes on too strong but seems like a good person. Seth on the other hand is going to get someone killed. Of course I watch this with my police officer husband and he’s yelling at the TV that a rookie cop is not going to get an immediate approval to buy drugs for a sting. Those things are planned out and he wouldn’t be part of it. I think he is lying about cancer but I don’t know what his reasoning is.

[anna0852]

2 hours ago, Madding crowd said:

I’m warming up to Texas guy; he comes on too strong but seems like a good person. Seth on the other hand is going to get someone killed. Of course I watch this with my police officer husband and he’s yelling at the TV that a rookie cop is not going to get an immediate approval to buy drugs for a sting. Those things are planned out and he wouldn’t be part of it. I think he is lying about cancer but I don’t know what his reasoning is.

Yeah Texas is getting better. He’s definitely been losing some of the cocky attitude and once he adjust himself more to how LAPD does things then I think he’ll do fine. He’s definitely been knocked for a few loops since he started and that will definitely help deal with his ego.

[Jodithgrace]

I think they have pretty much established that Seth is not lying about his cancer. He said that his medical records are on file and invited Lucy to look at them. I don’t know where they are going with this story line, but he does seem to actually have cancer. 

[christie]

5 hours ago, Jodithgrace said:

I think they have pretty much established that Seth is not lying about his cancer. He said that his medical records are on file and invited Lucy to look at them. I don’t know where they are going with this story line, but he does seem to actually have cancer. 

Yeah, I still think he's lying; the "you can look at my medical records" thing just reminded me of liars who bluff by saying "if you don't believe me you can check it" (in this case it's medical records) whilst, at the same time, being pretty sure that the person who's being lied to won't check either because they're embarrassed to or because they think that the liar is telling the truth 'cause the liar told them to check; many liars do this. Seth telling Lucy to look at his medical records means absolutely nothing.

[bros402]

On 2/19/2025 at 9:09 PM, Jodithgrace said:

Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Thank you! That’s all we needed, a few lines to indicate that Seth’s illness is legit. Was that so hard, show?

I had to laugh when he asked Lucy, all hurt,”Do you think I’d lie about cancer?” Well, WE all thought so…

I mean there are many types of NHL - but since it's a curable one, that narrows it down a bit. If he actually has cancer, it's most likely a B-Cell - probably DLBCL (the most common). If it's DLBCL, the treatment is probably R-CHOP or ICE and then a BMT/SCT...so, some strong stuff. Relapsed acute blood cancers need to get hit with a freight train, you aren't going to be back to work after a week of treatment (which will be inpatient for the first week, most likely).

6 hours ago, Jodithgrace said:

I think they have pretty much established that Seth is not lying about his cancer. He said that his medical records are on file and invited Lucy to look at them. I don’t know where they are going with this story line, but he does seem to actually have cancer. 

That could just be him being like "Do you really not trust this guy with cancer? If you don't believe me, just look!" and thinking she won't check because she'll feel guilty

[Zaffy]

If Seth lies about his cancer then this would be ridiculous.
We know Rookie is not famous for it's realism, but I guess a POLICE force would thoroughly check an officer that says he is seriously ill, if not to establish if he says the truth at least to establish if and when he will be fit to go back on duty.

Except if Seth is some kind of criminal mastermind who can fake documents and his purpose is to conquer the world, you know..like Elija and the red hair laywer. 

[tv echo]

I've been watching the Scamanda docuseries about a woman who faked having cancer for 10 years by using faked selfies, faked doctors' letters and faked medical records.

At this point, I don't know if Seth is lying or not about having cancer.

[shapeshifter]

4 hours ago, Zaffy said:

If Seth lies about his cancer then this would be ridiculous.…Except if Seth is some kind of criminal mastermind who can fake documents and his purpose is to conquer the world, you know..like Elija and the red hair laywer. 

Elijah and the red hair lawyer could be in cahoots with each other to cook up Seth's fake cancer documents.
I just looked up the actor who plays Seth (Patrick Keleher) and, OMG, his bio reads like a lie.
aspentimes.com/news/carbondale-native-patrick-keleher-debuts-in-television-with-the-rookie
I wonder if it inspired the writers? Or the casting?

Regarding Texas rookie: Having never lived in the south of the US, I don't have an ear for distinguishing southern accents beyond eastern and western, but Deric Augustine is actually from NOLA, or Texas-adjacent. 
I do love hearing him speak.

[Raja]

51 minutes ago, shapeshifter said:

Regarding Texas rookie: Having never lived in the south of the US, I don't have an ear for distinguishing southern accents beyond eastern and western, but Deric Augustine is actually from NOLA, or Texas-adjacent. 
I do love hearing him speak.

That reminds me of a pop geography book: The Nine Nations of North America where the author made the split between "the south and the west right through the middle of north Texas and the twin cities of Dallas and Fort Worth if my memory serves. 

Sugarland, being a suburb of Houston where Texas said he patrolled would be smack in the southern portion while the actor has chosen to lean into the western stereotypical accent. I guess that as a college athlete he could have been at any of the big football schools and not University of Houston.

My folks are from Louisiana and my father along with a lot of the men around being from New Orleans by the time I was around the army and later life in California took any noticeable Louisiana accent from  them to the point of being just the urban Black American accent. Now the cousins who went to Houston from the small army town in Louisiana, well it's not Officer Penn(Texas)

Edited Friday at 02:31 PM by Raja

[zapper]

6 hours ago, Zaffy said:

Except if Seth is some kind of criminal mastermind who can fake documents and his purpose is to conquer the world, you know..like Elija and the red hair laywer. 

no, I don't think that Seth is that kind of mastermind. I don't believe his aw shucks naivety, but I don't believe him to be a mastermind.

Faking medical documents like that would require access to hospital records, knowledge of how the medical system works, experience in ops to access internal systems, perhaps even an in with local police to tweek or corroborate their records with the story they have created in the medical records for Seth.

Still sounds like evil mastermind Bailey to me.

[Madding crowd]

This show isn’t known for realism. They have rookie cops hunting serial killers, working as SWAT officers and trying to take down drug cartels. Faking cancer seems like something they’d do.